Alistair MacLeod

Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian writer, novelist and university teacher (1936–2014). He was born at North Battleford and died at Windsor.

Alistair MacLeod in brief

Born
1936
Died
2014
Known for
writer, novelist and university teacher
Place of birth
North Battleford
Contents

Formation and teaching

Alistair MacLeod studied at University of Notre Dame, University of New Brunswick, St. Francis Xavier University and Nova Scotia Teachers College.

Career and activity

Alistair MacLeod worked in literature.

He was employed by Indiana University Bloomington and University of Windsor. He belonged to Royal Society of Canada.

Recognition and collections

Alistair MacLeod received Officer of the Order of Canada, PEN/Malamud Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Dartmouth Book Award and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.

Catalogued works

16 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1952 to 1996.

Island. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood. No Great Mischief. Lo ason gadol. Hirondelles font le printemps. Never Die Wondering The Alister Macleod Story. As birds bring forth the sun and other stories. El Regreso (Rba Literaria). La perte et le fracas. Lost Salt Gift of Blood, The/See 0 224 032194. Sangre De Mi Sangre (Rba Literaria). Land der Bäume. To Every Thing There Is a Season. I Lean, dated 1979, pen and black ink and orange and brown fiber-tipped pen, with red pencil and touches of blue ballpoint pen, on cream wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1980.100. Student Reports, dated 1952-1961, held by Wellcome Collection. "Pictures for the archive," mounted photographs of people involved in physiology at various universities, dated 1996-1997, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

11 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

A stranger in a strange land: magical thinking in the fiction of Alistair MacLeod. Writing in the Dusk: Alden Nowlan and Alistair MacLeod, Setting in the East, 2003. Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Poetic Tradition, Scottish Literature and Postcolonial LiteratureComparative Texts and Critical Perspectives, 2011. Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Diaspora, Tropes and Territories, 2007. Scottish Territories and Canadian Identity: Regional Aspects in the Literature of Alistair MacLeod, Translation of Cultures, 2009. The Location of Settled Diasporas in Nova Scotian Fiction, Humanities, 2020. Highlanders and Maritimers in Alistair MacLeod’s “Clearances”, Études Écossaises, 2017. Storykeepers: circling family voice in stories by Thomas King, Olive Senior, Alistair Macleod and Guy Vanderhaeghe, Journal of the Short Story in English, 2006. THE SHIFTING SCOTTISH DIASPORA: IMAGES OF HOME IN ALISTAIR MACLEOD’S NO GREAT MISCHIEF, ES Review, 2018. LIMINAL SPACES AND THE ECOMORPHIC SELF IN ALISTAIR MACLEOD’S SHORT STORIES, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2021. Alistair Macleod - b. 1936, Journal of the Short Story in English, 2003.

Digitised editions and texts

3 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Island (2002) — Internet Archive. No Great Mischief (2001) — Internet Archive. Geen groot verlies (2000) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 15 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 12 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

Alistair MacLeod studied at University of Notre Dame, University of New Brunswick and St. Francis Xavier University. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is literature.

Employment is recorded with Indiana University Bloomington and University of Windsor. Membership is recorded of Royal Society of Canada.

Works named in the authority record are No Great Mischief.

Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Order of Canada, PEN/Malamud Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Dartmouth Book Award.

Chronology

  1. 1936Alistair MacLeod born at North Battleford.
  2. 2000Geen groot verlies digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 2001No Great Mischief digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 2002Island digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 2014Alistair MacLeod died at Windsor.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    “Alistair MacLeod”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1659739: Alistair MacLeod

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